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QUILLING MACHINE.

No. 271,403. Patented Jan.30,1883.

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QUILLING MACHINE.

No. 271,403. Patented Jan.30, 1883.

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UNTTED STATES PAT NT OTFTCE.

EDWIN BARTON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO OATHOLINA LAMBERT, OF SAME PLACE.

QUIILLJNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,403, dated January 30, 1883.

Application filed October 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI,EDWINBARTON, ofPate'rson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Quilling-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is more particularly applicable for winding silk-quills, but it may be cmbodied in machines for winding quills or bobbins of either thread or yarn.

In machines for winding quills in conical layers the quills have been supported on friction-rollers tapered or coned reversely to the quill and bearing directly upon the silk or thread, and as the conical layers are wound on the quills they are gradually raised by the friction-rollers. These friction-rollers are apt to stick and not rotate, either because of their spindles becoming bent or from other causes, and when they do not rotate the thread rubs over them, and in the case of silk burns the thread and injures it to such an extent as to cause a considerable loss.

The object of my invention is to impart the necessary rising motion to the quills in a more desirable manner than heretotore, and also without the use of friction-rollers; and to this end my invention consistsin a novel combination ot'parts, hereinaftert'ully described, whereby the desired end is attained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an end elevation and partial sec- [ion of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of the opposite end of the machine. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation and partial section of the machine;

and Fig. 4 represents a detail view, hereinafter described.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the frame, and B designates the spindles, which are shown as arranged in two rows on opposite sides of the machine, and on which the quills a are placed. The spindles B rotate and are adapted to slide upward and downward in hearings in the rail 0, and the lower portions of the spindles, which are square, fit in square holes in the whirls D. The whirls are adapted to rotate freely on step boxes E, which are set in rails E, and the are drawn from spools H, and are wound under the control of traverse-rods d, which are each supported in arms d on a rock-shaft, l. The rock-shafts I are turnedby well-known mechanism to work the traverserod, such' mechanism being most clearly shown in Fig. 2. Upon each rock-shai'tl is an arm or lever, l, which is connected with a second lever, 1 by apin and slot, and said lever l is fulcrumed at l. The two levers l are connected by a spring, 1 sothat whennot otherwise actuated they are drawn together or toward each other, which lowers the traverse-bars, and they are moved in the opposite direction by two heartcams, 1 which receive rotary motion through gear-wheels e e from the driving-shaft G.

Below each row ot'spindles B is arranged a shaft, J, which is adapted to rotate continuously in one direction, and each shaft has upon it a gear-wheel.f, which receives motion from a pinion,f, on a stnd, f*. Upon each stud, and rigidly attached to the pinion f thereon, is a ratchet-wheehf, which has a step-by-step movement imparted to it in one direction by a pawl, upon a lever, J, which is fulcrumed loosely on the-stud or pin f and is actuated by a rod, J from the traverse-rod d, which is on that side of the machine. Hence it will be seen that at each upward movement of one of the traverse-rods d the shaft J on that side of the machine is advanced a fraction of a turn.

As before stated,each spindle tits in a square hole in its whirl D, and is adapted to rise and fall therein, and also fits loosely in the stepbox E. Extending through and below each step-box is a pin, K, on the upper end of which the lower end of the spindle rests, and these pins I term step-pins. Each step-pin rests upon a wedge or incline, g, which has a rack,

9 9, upon its under side, and is adapted to slide in a track or guideway, 9 as shown in Figs.

1 and 3.

Upon each shaft J, below each wedge or inclined plane g, is a pinion or sector, h, which gears with the rack g, and as the shalt is turned the wedge is advanced very slowly under the step-pin K, and raises the pin and the spindle B, which rests upon it. The wheels It all have a frictional connection with the shafts J. This connection may be made in any wellk nown m anner-as, for example, by providing the wheels each with a socket or chamber at the side of its bore, in which is arranged a plug or piece of leather or other material,

which is forced against the shaft with the desired pressure by a set-screw, h. As the wedges g are forced under the step-pins K the spindles B are raised until their lower ends are clear out of the holes in the whirls, whereupon the spindles, with the full quills upon them, stop rotating, and the wedges are arrested by stops in the guideways 9 After the lull quills are removed from the spindles and are replaced by empty quills, the wedges g are shoved back by the attendant, the pinions h turning backward on their shafts, which they are capable of doing by reason of their frictional engagement therewith.

In lieu of the wedges g and pinions [1,1 may employ cams L, of the form shown in Fig. 4, which would havea frictional engagement with the shafts J, they being provided in their bores with sockets or chambers adapted to receive a plug or piece of leather or other material, which may be forced against the shaft by a set-screw, h.

The step-pinK rests upon its cap] L, and the turning of the cam raises said pin until the spindle B resting upon it is raised above the whirl,at which time alip or shoulder, i,on the cam strikes the side of the pin K, and the rotationof the cam is arrested,the shaft turning without turning the cam. \Vhen the fullquill is changed for an empty one the cam can be readily turned backward by the attendant, so that the step-pin K willagain rest on the part of its periphery which is nearest the center.

By the use of a worm and worm-wheel or other gearing, instead of the ratchet-wheelf and the pawlf and its operating mechanism, a continuous movement may be substituted for the step-by-step movement for feeding the spindle.

I do not here intend to claim broadly the combination of the hollow whirl D,the hollow step-box E, and the vertically-movable spindle 13, and step-pin K, as such elements form the subject of another application for Letters Patent,filed November 17, 1882,:1nd of which the serial number is 76,998.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; The combination, with the whirls and the spindles adapted to slide through the whirls and to turn therewith, of step-boxes and steppins, within and upon which said spindles are supported, a shaft or shafts and mechanism for imparting thereto a rotary motion, and devices actuated by said shaft or shafts for imparting a rising motion to the step-pins and the spindles supported thereon within the stepboxes, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the whirls and the spindles adapted to slide through and to turn with them, of step-boxes and step-pins within and on which said spindles are supported, a traverse rod or rods for said spindles, a shaft or shafts arranged below said step-pins. mechanism for operating said traverse rod or rods and for imparting a rotary motion to said shaft or shafts, and devices having a frictional engagement with said shaft or shafts, and through which a rising motion is imparted to said step-pins and spindles supported thereon, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination of the spindles B, the whirls D and mechanism for rotating them, the step-boxes 1* step-pins K, the wedges 9, provided with racks g, the slideways g", the shaft or shafts J, pinions h, having a frictional engagement with said shaft or shafts and engaging with said racks, and mechanism for imparting a rotary motion to said shaft or shafts, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the spindles B, the whirls 1) and mechanism for rotating them, the traverse-rods d, and mechanism for operating them, the step boxes 1), step-pins K, the wedges 9, provided with racks g, the slideways 9 the shaft or shafts J, the pinions it, having a frictional engagement with said shaft or shafts, the wheels], the pinionsf, the ratchet-wheels f, the levers J, the pawls f and connections between said traverse-rods and levers, substantially as described.

EDWIN BARTON.

Witnesses:

' (J. N. STERRETT,

REUBEN MACFARLAN. 

